January 15th, 2009, 07:18 AM
Just wondering, what's your favourite old game(s)?
Replaying old games which I played in my younger years always gives
my life a nice breeze, here are some of my favourite ones! xD
-Little Big Adventure 1
-Little Big Adventure 2
-Rayman 1
-Pink Panther games
-Runescape Classic(1).. Can't play it now..
-Dungeon Keeper 1
-Heroes of Might & Magic IV(not THAT old.. but still old)
-Crusaders of Might & Magic
-Freelancer
-Arcanum
Please list yours!
thx
Super Mario World on the SNES
Marbles, Monopoly, anything that involves others and the lack of computers...
We had a Tedelex TV game machine (Emerson Arcade elsewhere) when I was growing up. Great, simple games on that! Eventually one of the remotes broke, so I rewired one of the newer 8 bit system remotes and it was back! Games like Tanks A Lot, Breakaway, Bowling, Space Raiders, Spiders, Robot Killer.
The first couple Doom games. Those are some good memories.
I also enjoyed Jazz Jackrabbit but that's more recent.
Jazz Jackrabbit recent?? rofl!! this game's like from stoneage or something xD
Good game btw
Donkey Kong Country; anything donkey kong!
Galaxian
Ancient art of war
Space harrier
Spin the bottle (ohh wait, wrong type of game)
i liked "dangerous dave"...
anyone remember that dos game??
Sid Meyers Civilization for PC
Clue
sorry
Monopoly
Risk
Anyone else ever hear of Twixt?
Way of the Exploding Fist. Commodore 64 2nd-person fight game and first of it's kind. Head-to-head meant genuine sparring because reflexive blocks and dodges really worked and the mechanics were clean - none of this dumb button mashing the genre wallows in now.
Monopoly is great when you're doing the math (statistics) and other players calculate turn-by-turn as well.
The entire Civilization series. Anything Sid Meyer.
Shogun Total War. Game designers not only studied The Art of War, they built the game from it. You can actually win this by reading Sun Tsu and applying his maxims.
Microsoft Freelancer. The radio chatter, and the wonderful nuanced ironies of that universe. Such atmosphere! I also played Elite in 1985, essentially the original Freelancer and way ahead of its time.
Marbles. My son and I shoot them at our opposing plastic soldier armies. Haggling ad hoc rules is a sport in itself.
Snowfight is a classic... Flash game. Still a favorite, especially with two people cooperating on the controls.
Paper & dice RPGs, with my clueless boy friends after reading Jung.
Tetris.
Tetris!
CHESS!!!!
realy, who doesn't like chess....
stupid people, that's who.
...and here comes the storm of angry people who
have been indignified by my thoughtless comment.
mindless idiots. they have no tact.
be right back.
Tetris is dangerously addictive, by the way kalster.
careful.
Don't worry, I've been through that already! And chess, of course. Some people just don't have the patience, idiot or not. After local chess tournaments I used to have the weirdest chess dreams!Originally Posted by Shaderwolf
My squirmy son and I play a claustrophobic game we call Ghost Chess, which incorporates a cardboard partition clamped in the center of a folding board, so it's rather like Battleships. Pieces set up perpendicular to normal, so half one's army is just an echo used to track your movements... bishop to bee-three and so forth. The king though is a ghost and not mirrored - therefore one only calls "king moved" and the opponent must guess where.
Sounds interesting!
I do realy like made up games as they are the most dynamic sometimes.
When I was in my early teen me and my bet friend created a game replicating fleet battles between Star trek universe ships (Micromachines made excellent ships).
My large collection of ships was divvied up and then attacks were based on dice rolls and point values assigned to each ship.
I think i still have a copy of the rules and point values around somewhere...
Hang onto it! When you have children that kind of play is good compromise between randomly zooming around the room and brooding over dull stuff.
Rayman 1, Age of Empires, SimCity, Lemmings!
Aye! Age of Empires(I think it was 2), one of my favourites xD
I also liked Age of Mythology. Played through the whole game and the expansion!!
I rarely finish games
Civilization 1
day of the tentacle
Sam and max hit the road
Indiana Jones adventure games
Im sure im forgetting something...
I miss the sounds of old games. Some musical solutions to the constraints of early audio chips, were true genius. Anyway it's certainly a lost genre.
Yars' Revenge (Atari) made a virtue of buzzy noise.
Dune (PC) was probably the climax of that genre. A game produced by Virgin. It captured the air of that novel perfectly.
A nice track from Dune, converted to MP3: http://www.taconf.com/tom/mp3/dune/%...tch%20Tuek.mp3 This one you (Paul) don't hear until discovering yer true soulmate. The music is the only hint you're supposed to pick her, to progress the game.
Even the sandworms get their own track, and groove in time to it.
awesome pics, you forgot indiana jones and the fate of alantis
I don't think I've posted yet so...
Dark Forces
Tie Fighter
X Wing
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Battle Bugs
Civilization 2 and 3
Colonization 1
Master of Orion 1
Mariokart 64
Super Smash Bros
Pokemon Red and Silver
Rebel Assault
I actually said "Indiana jones adventure games" Games in plural. Including but not limited to "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis." The other one is IJ and the Last Crusade. Havent played Temple of Doom but it doesnt look promising.
Im not including The incredible machine to the collection as I didnt like it.
Tetris, pacman, Tekken, Sonic the hedgehog. All old school games really, there aren't too many good ones these days, either that or if they are good they tend to be too realistic. A game is called that for a reason :wink:.
FRUSTRATION
With the popper thing in the middle
Definaitely pacman. When I was quite a bit younger than I am now my mom bought me one of those little miniature arcade-like pacman games for christmas. I played it non stop and the highest score I ever achieved was one in which the score had to reset itself back to 0 twice (Basically I went from 0 to 1,000,000 or however many it went up to twice) because the game couldn't handle that high of a score.
Oh man I miss the pathetic withering noise he emits.
Ah! HERE 3 seconds.
Old Games?... I think that I still play a lot of these games but here's my list anyway...
risk
chess
scrabble
hex --(has anyone else ever heard of this game? Its supposed to be a "math" game but reminds me a lot of tic-tac-toe)
Hope this helps complete your list!
I bought a Systema handheld goal keeping game in the 4th grade (20 years ago!) for R28 with pocket money I had saved. Black and white LCD, one of those flat disc teeters for sound (the kind you get in electronic watches), alarm and time display. It was the shit when I got it and I wasted many hours on that thing! It used one of those pinky nail sized batteries, but it didn't last long enough so I connected a penlight battery to it. I dropped it in the swimming pool once and my father could not fix it, so I opened it up and fixed it myself (I was so proud of myself). I still have it and it still works!
Star Wars: Supremacy (Rebellion for Yanks)
Jones: Life in the Fast Lane
Crystal Caves Episode 1
super mario world
Flimbos Quest (com - 64)
Terminator 2 (com - 64)
Golden EYE, (N64)
Pokemon, and all the hits since then
Absolute Favourite has to be Metal Gear Solid.
Prince of Persia
NFS
FIFA
I just completed The Two Thrones.
Monkey island series needs a mention too. Last ones werent that good, but the first is epic.
Well, don't ask me where my mind was at when I saw the title "What's Your Favourite Old Game(s)?". I must have been thinking "olde" games, because tablut and hnefatafl instantly came to mind. These are two of several "tafl" games, where the players have asymmetrical roles playing either the Swedes or the Muscovites. Tablut is a simple version of tafl games and can be played using checker pieces on the lines of a checkerboard, instead of the squares. Tafl games are asymmetrical games, something we don't often see in board games. One player's objective is to get his king to the edge of the board (ie, escape); the other player's objective is to capture the king.
There's also an interesting card game, although I forget the name, for two players that uses the 1 through 10 cards of three suits. One suit is shuffled and stacked face down. Each player holds one of the other suits as his/her hand and hidden from the other player. The top card of the stack is turned over as in rummy. Each player selects one card from his/her hand to try to "buy" the turned over card, and holds it face down on the table. Both players turn their selected cards over simultaneously. The higher card wins the card from the stack. In the case of a tie, I forget, but probably no one wins the card. When the stack is spent, each player totals the values of the cards thus won, and the larger score wins. It's very psychological, and if the spent cards are left face up on the table (and I think they are), each player knows what remains in the other player's hand.
Then there's Laska, an interesting board game created by world chess champion Emanuel Lasker, played similar to checkers where captured pieces are not removed from the board, but are placed under the capturing piece, which forms a stack (moved as one piece). When a stack is "jumped" the top piece is removed and placed under the jumping piece/stack. Pieces can be captured, but they can also be rescued.
As for modern "old" games, I think Steve Jackson's Car Wars is a riot, so is Champions and also Call of Cthulhu.
Those are all old games?
Must be getting old myself then lol.
Anyway:
Super mario bros on Nintendo 8bit.
James Bond: Goldeneye on Nintendo 64.
Fallout 1+2 for the PC.
Starcraft 1 for the PC.
Heroes of might and magic for the PC.
Final fantasy 7 for the Playstation 1.
final fantasy 7, Starcraft, and Raidon
Super Mario Brothers and Tank 3c and Tetris. I have this games on my I phone. I played this games since 7 years old.
The original Starcraft really was a great game, anyone out there playing Starcraft II, I'm rediscovering all my childhood addictions.
Other old games.
On the NES -
Final Fantasy 1
Super Mario Bros. 3
On the SNES -
Final Fantasy V (Although never released on the SNES in English)
Final Fantasy VI (III in the USA)
Super Mario World
Breath of Fire I and II
Ogre Battle
Mortal Kombat II
Donkey Kong
Zelda: Link to the Past
Super Metroid
F-Zero
Sega -
Sonic and lots of classic Beat 'em ups.
N64
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Mario 64
Harvest Moon 64 (who doesn't want to be a farmer?)
PSO
Final fantasy VII, VIII, IX
Suikoden 1 and 2
Monster Rancher (Say what you will, fun game)
Legend of Dragoon
many more...
PC
Warcraft II
Starcraft + Broodwar
Civilization series
Baldur's Gate II
Wasn't a big fan of the first 2 fallout games, though I have them.
Im playing SC2 but at the European realmIm guessing you are at the US realm? In Diamond league atm but its really hard there. People use the most insane strategies lol.
Ya, I'm in the North American English realm there are French and Spanish North American ones too, but I went out of my way to try and find one of the few English language versions in the province.Im playing SC2 but at the European realm
I'm not that good though, I'm like middle range gold league. Frankly, I think you have to be really, really bad at the game to be in the bronze league.
Agreed. Some friends of mine that never played SC1 or any other strategy games either for that matter ( Counter strike guys) got straight to silver and pretty quick made their way to gold. I cant imagine how bad you have to be to be in bronze league.Ya, I'm in the North American English realm there are French and Spanish North American ones too, but I went out of my way to try and find one of the few English language versions in the province.Im playing SC2 but at the European realm
I'm not that good though, I'm like middle range gold league. Frankly, I think you have to be really, really bad at the game to be in the bronze league.
True, who doesnt like chess? =)) Btw, Sudoku (love it and will never get tired of it), tetris, loved Sonic too.... Stronghold (^_^)
Or go up against 5 people who made it to diamond out of the starting gate in placement... I've gone up from bronze to silver... I'm not the "best" but in a team, and given a sliver of a chance, I will purify your ass into oblivionYa, I'm in the North American English realm there are French and Spanish North American ones too, but I went out of my way to try and find one of the few English language versions in the province.Im playing SC2 but at the European realm
I'm not that good though, I'm like middle range gold league. Frankly, I think you have to be really, really bad at the game to be in the bronze league.
Well, I do not know what qualifies for an old game. But guess that depends on how old you are yourself.
Some games from another millennium that I still play from time to time:
Super Smash Bros (N64)
Mario Cart 64 (N64)
Civilization II (PC)
Starcraft (PC)
Diablo II (PC)
Half-Life (PC)
Playstation
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII
Legends of Dragoon
Star Ocean: The Second Story
Blasto (weird but entertaining!)
N64
Mario 64
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Conker's Bad Fur Day (awesome)
Golden Eye
SNES
Super Mario Bros
Spider Man: Seperation Anxiety
Mortal Kombat
Street Fighter
Elite
Airborne Ranger
Gunship
688 Attack Sub
Dark Forces
Jedi Outcast
Tie Fighter
X-Wing
I think those are the only games I played up to the year 2000.
Haha, I managed to move up to platinum pretty quick, and I'm like 4th in plat right now, I don't play that much so I don't think I'll get to diamond soon if ever.Or go up against 5 people who made it to diamond out of the starting gate in placement... I've gone up from bronze to silver... I'm not the "best" but in a team, and given a sliver of a chance, I will purify your ass into oblivion
You're in the US you should add me.
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Tie fighter and X-Wing, I remember those 2, I enjoyed them.
Added.Haha, I managed to move up to platinum pretty quick, and I'm like 4th in plat right now, I don't play that much so I don't think I'll get to diamond soon if ever.Or go up against 5 people who made it to diamond out of the starting gate in placement... I've gone up from bronze to silver... I'm not the "best" but in a team, and given a sliver of a chance, I will purify your ass into oblivion
You're in the US you should add me.
Username: IFTS
Code: 933
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Super Mario bros 1,2 and 3, and i'm still playing them
there are so many good old games out there, but i would have to say for me its Tetris
Maybe Dungeon Master. Followed by Freelancer, Lord of Midnight and Elite. Baldur's Gate series.
One that is not a really very old game (past 2000) but still EXCELLENT and more over, it didn't become so popular: Space Rangers 1 and better 2. Space Rangers 2 is OUTSTANDING. You have all. RPG, adventure, FPS, arcade, text adventure, RTS, wargame, name it, you have it. In addition, Space Rangers is intelligent, full of humour. It's a russian game.
I don't like chess at all. I prefer Go by 100 times.
Pool of Radiance on the Commodore 64. 5 1/2 floppies and an external drive. Must have taken at least eight minutes to load.
All four Dragonwarrior's on the 8-bit Nintendo. I hand mapped all the "dungeons" on graph paper.
BTW, do you know that a lot of these games are existing now as freeware.
There is a remake of Elite called Oolite, pretty good with a LOT of extensions and adventures.
Dungeon Master is existing as well, not to talk about Lord of Midnight.
.Day of tentacles ! Maybe the BEST game ever
.Indiana Jones fade of Atlantis
.Simon the sorcerer
.Discworld
.PRISONIER OF ICE (short but what a great EXPERIENCE)
.Duke nukem 3D
.Gabriel night
.Sam and max (At the time I was a bit disapointed (began to weird at the end), but with the time I like it much since dosbox, love the humour. Maybe the BEST graphics ever for this kind of game).
" Splinter Cell " which I still play to this day on my trusty XBOX. 8) However a blast from the past would be " Space Invaders ".
Kings Quest V, easily the best, and worst game ever made.
Road Rash and yes, how can i forget, DOOM
Donkey Kong on the arcade machines.
Donkey Kong Country and Tetris!
Super Mario is the best game ever...
currently railroad tycoon 2
Starcraft 1
Diablo 1
All the old Final Fantasies
Tekken 1
Crash Bandicoot
Eternal Champions
Breath of Fire III
Chess
Probably tons more
Not playing Starcraft II ...it's too boring, I played SC2 beta...don't care for it too much.
River City Ransom!
My favourite old game are below
1.Rayman 1
2.Freelancer
3 Road Rash.
January 2nd, 2011, 01:18 PM
Tetris Attack, Mario Kart 64 and Super Smash Bros. are good ones (video games).Just wondering, what's your favourite old game(s)?
Replaying old games which I played in my younger years always gives
my life a nice breeze, here are some of my favourite ones! xD
-Little Big Adventure 1
-Little Big Adventure 2
-Rayman 1
-Pink Panther games
-Runescape Classic(1).. Can't play it now..
-Dungeon Keeper 1
-Heroes of Might & Magic IV(not THAT old.. but still old)
-Crusaders of Might & Magic
-Freelancer
-Arcanum
Please list yours!
thx
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